Town duo Adam McDonnell and George Fowler have joined Vanarama National League Aldershot on a month’s loan.

Irish U19 international midfielder McDonnell, 20, has made three starts and two sub appearances for the Blues’ first team, while central defender or right-back Fowler, 19, made his senior debut in last week's Carabao Cup tie at Crystal Palace.

The Shots are managed by Gary Waddock, who played alongside Town boss Mick McCarthy at Millwall and with the Republic of Ireland.

“I am once again very grateful to Mick McCarthy for his assistance with these deals, and look forward to working with two young players of undoubted quality," Waddock told the Aldershot official website.

The duo will train with the Shots for the first time tomorrow, the paperwork having been agreed this afternoon.

Last season, former Blues midfielder Kundai Benyu enjoyed a hugely successful spell on loan at Aldershot before joining Celtic earlier in the summer, while Town defender Pat Webber spent time on trial at the Recreation Ground early in pre-season but failed to impress enough to win a loan move.

Happy to have joined @OfficialShots on loan.. Looking forward to the challenge ahead!👍🏼

— adam mc donnell (@AdamMcDonnell97) August 30, 2017

Like Benyu's move, the deals were facilitated by Aldershot's Boost the Budget scheme.

Director and Shots Trust chairman, Tommy Anderson, added: “I’m delighted to welcome Adam and George to the football club and I’m pleased to have been able to assist Gary with their signings.

"It is the direct contributions of supporters which have enabled the club to now make further signings from this scheme, and we want to help with many more signings going forward.”

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rfretwell added 17:23 - Aug 30 The Shots will give them good experience in the Conference. Both youngsters gave a good account of themselves at Palace in the Cup.
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rayman_10 added 17:30 - Aug 30 Benyu clearly done well for himself there so hopefully these 2 can make a similar impression. Hopefully Hyam and Adeyami are back fully with Huws not too far away? (Optimistic I know) so McDonnell can get some proper game time
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mojo added 17:34 - Aug 30 Both played well too last night I thought. A month of competitive football when there are limited games here seems vert sensible.
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mojo added 17:35 - Aug 30 oops meant to say very
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CanadianBlue added 18:02 - Aug 30 Good luck to them both.
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gt81 added 22:24 - Aug 30 Nice, two more players loaned to my 2nd team, will make it all the more exciting for me personally. Gary Waddock has them playing good football (better than ours, watching the higlights), although they have stuttered after a good start.
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ALF added 07:15 - Aug 31 Snap - born in Aldershot - great to see them having a great start to the new season (despite the recent blip) and having a couple of our fringe/youth players will hopefully benefit both them and us. Wonder how many more may make the journey to the Rec
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Corrick91 added 12:06 - Aug 31 ALF - good to see another town fan here from Aldershot. UP the town(s)
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